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- AP: Getting polemical over PowerPoint - David Byrne provokes dispute through artwork David Byrne put PowerPoint presentations to music, made a coffeetable book and DVD out of it, and is selling it for 80 bucks. How many times have you... |
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- They were showing "Serendipity" on TV last night. It was one of those romantic movies made for Christmas some years back starring John Cusack and Kate Becksindale. Collins Cobuild defines "serendipity" as "the natural talent that some people have for finding interesting or valuable things by chance". From the meaning, you would have guessed that this film is abt chance and destiny in a relation ... |
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- Sherman’s Lagoon Comic Strip – 12/27/03 Heh heh… and on the 27th of all days. By the way, this doesn’ |
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- Bah voilà, bonnes fêtes, tout ça quoi ! |
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- Je modifie mon tétoucom. Je clique sur visualiser puis sur valider. Mais mon tétoucom reste comme avant. |
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- Cette année, comme souvent pour Noël, j'ai pas mal acheté sur internet. Mais pour la première fois, j'ai acheté certains de mes cadeaux en commerce équitable... [Lightman] Un geste intéressant et bien décrit. Un carnet à suivre. |
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- J'ai envie de Hurler de tout piétiner de toutes mes forces, Une putain de rage qui prend toute la place, et je sais même plus pourquoi...On faisait juste les courses au supermarché, pas tellement une raison pour n'avoir qu'une envie c'est de tout réduire en miette autour de soi, Je l'ai jamais fait, je sais même pas si ça soulage tellement en fait...Mais se réduire soi même en miette ça soulage au moins pour un temps. |
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- The faithful sentries who keep the Dave Eggers Watch were caught sleeping on this one. It seems Mr. Eggers has been tapped to adapt Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book Where the Wild Things Are for the silver screen. One blogger writes: If y |
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- Viitasaarella Keski-Suomessa perjantaina sattunut kahden henkilöauton törmäys on vaatinut toisenkin kuolonuhrin. |
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- Kokkolan poliisi epäilee lauantaiaamuista, uhkaavaa tulipaloa tahallaan sytytetyksi. Marketin lastauslaiturilla riehunut palo ei päässyt leviä |
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- Työtapaturma vaati miehen hengen lauantaina Kälviällä. |
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- Latest 'phishing' scam targets Visa customers. Fraudulent e-mails advise consumers to "reactivate" their accounts, giving a link that appears to be a Visa site but is not. [Computerworld News] |
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- Autofahrer müssen künftig möglicherweise damit rechnen, per Video überwacht zu werden. Laut einem Magazinbericht planen Bund und Länder, an Verkehrsknotenpunkten die Kennzeichen vorbeifahrender Autos zu erfassen. |
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- Sick of standing impotently by while some of the biggest GOP contributors profit off of American and Iraqi blood? Me, too. From Working for Change, here's a little nauseating background on the issue, and a way for us all to easily express our collective disgust... In November, Republican House negotiators blocked a provision that would have created criminal penalties for war profiteers and cheats who try to defraud American taxpayers and cash in on the relief and reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The provision has now been introduced as a stand-alone bill and should be passed as soon as possible. |
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- I wonder who among the Coalition of Unwilling is next in line? You know, next to get kicked in the holiday nuts by our spinningly vindictive Bush administration? Let's brainstorm. Could it be Germany? Or maybe China? |
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- Bravo, Ted Sorenson.... |
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- Plastic::Media::Flame War: Believe it or not, Gary Condit and JonBenet Ramsey's parents actually think they can be further defamed. |
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- These links are from week #11 of the J-Walk Blog (one year ago). More good stuff that you may have overlooked. A History of 'Adventure' - Back in the golden age of computer games ASCII Generator - Create ASCII words A Guy Sneezing - 217 photos PuppetTool - Do weird things with a horse (Shockwave) The Orphanage of Cast-Off Mascots - Former advertising symbols Tongue Twisters - A database Celebrity Contract Riders - From The Smoking Gun Permalink Created Sat, 27 Dec 2003 ### |
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- Have you ever heard of Mutoscope cards? Mutoscope cards were produced in the '40s and dispensed by vending machines for around two cents a pop. They have a distinctive size of 5.25" x 3.25". |
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- Here's a nifty drawing board. Choose chalk or a marking pen, and go for it. And if you get really good at it, you can enter their drawing contest. Permalink Created Sat, 27 Dec 2003 ### |
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- A site devoted to primitive weapons. Since 1986 Primitive Weapons' owner Bob Booth has been making and selling handmade, quality products. He started with Blowguns and now offers a complete line of primitive weapons. The line includes Atlatls, Blowguns, Bolas, Slings, Spearthrowers, Slingshots and his own patented Pocket Bow. As of July 1, 2003 all of Primitive Weapons products are hand made. |
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Sandy Stuff (Dec 27 2003 14:54 GMT) - A variety of Java applets that display falling sand. If you use Windows, you can also download the sand software. Permalink Created Sat, 27 Dec 2003 ### |
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- Greetings from the Temple of Black Jesus. Black Jesus is a homeless evangelical street preaching prophet. He has devoted his life to delivering the Lord's blessed word to the social pariahs of Minneapolis, MN's lower east side. In the projects, amidst prostitutes, crack heads, drunks, pimps, and thieves, wearing his signature white terry-cloth robe, Leroy Pontrell Perkins shares his special brand of salvation. "If a man loves God and God loves him hows he is gonna love him less for sharing a br... |
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- One of my favorite blogs is Love And The Happy Cynic. I'm very pleased to announce that it has a new design. It's much more readable, and doesn't look so depressing. He says: Like the new colors? |
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- Rick Doble's Painting With Light... Breaking the chains of traditional photography: Going beyond the realistic image with basic camera controls *not* computer manipulation. Permalink Created Fri, 26 Dec 2003 ### |
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- Use some virtual blocks to build something. Here are examples of what others have done: Permalink Created Fri, 26 Dec 2003 ### |
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- Philip M. Torrone asks: "What would it look like taking 1 picture, every 30 minutes, every hour, for 24 hours, 7 days a week, for 3 weeks, no matter what?" Find out. Permalink Created Fri, 26 Dec 2003 ### |
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- The Red Ball Project, an art installation at Sydney Town Hall by Kurt Persche. It's a 360-degree panorama image. (via Cinema Minima) Permalink Created Fri, 26 Dec 2003 ### |
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Kung-Log (Dec 27 2003 14:54 GMT) - The excellent Kung-Log is getting a revamp, a new name, and eventually a Windows version - and it's going into beta soon.... |
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- There's still a holiday-season quietness out there on the Net, but here are a few links anyhow. ... |
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- Take The T-Bird AwayWhen I do my home girl dance home alone, especially in winter, I have to toss some Beach Boys into the mix. Just gets you going and going and going. Well she got her daddy's carAnd she cruised through the hamburger stand nowSeems she forgot all about the libraryLike she told her old man nowAnd with the radio blastingGoes cruising just as fast as she can nowAnd she'll have fun fun fun'Til her daddy takes the T-Bird away(Fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes the T-Bird away)Well the girls can't stand her'Cause she walks looks and drives like an ace now(You walk like an ace now you walk like an ace)She makes the Indy 500 look like a Roman chariot race now(You look like an ace now you look like an ace)A lotta guys try to catch herBut she leads them on a wild goose chase now(You drive like an ace now you drive like an ace)And she'll have fun fun fun'Til her daddy takes the T-Bird away(Fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes the T-Bird away)Well you knew all alongThat your dad was gettin' wise to you now(You shouldn't have lied now you shouldn't have lied)And since he took your set of keysYou've been thinking that your fun is all through now(You shouldn't have lied now you shouldn't have lied)But you can come along with me'Cause we gotta a lot of things to do now(You shouldn't have lied now you shouldn't have lied)And we'll have fun fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away(Fun fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)And we'll have fun fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away(Fun fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)(fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)(fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)(fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)(fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)(fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)(fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away) |
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- An interpreter package for AIML, the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language |
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